December 16, 2009:  Congress has finalized a 2 percent raise for General Schedule (GS) employees.  The budget measure specifies paying 1.5 percentage points to base pay and splitting funds for the remaining half-percent as locality pay.

Wage grade employees, who are paid under a separate system, will have their raises capped at the amount going to GS employees in their location; wage grade raises are paid at varying times of the year.

New pay tables will be issued with an upcoming presidential order on the raise, which will be effective with the first full pay period of the new year.

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